I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world. What interests me are France's interests.

Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.

Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks as fraudsters, the French as lazy. Ms. Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.

Vive les peuples, Vive la Republique! Vive la France!

I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world. What interests me are France's interests.

The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.

It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't look in the rearview mirror. But there was no need for us to experience an end to social progress since then.